Corporate Blog

Utilizing views as a theme layer to a custom query

Kurt Vanderwater — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:50:23 +0000

We had a client requirement that a single view be the combination of:

a random list of attorneys with offices in a given state
a random list of attorneys that are licensed in a given state.

There should be no duplications and all of list 1 must precede list 2. We could not accomplish this with views alone. After talking to Earl, we were able to access the created SQL statement within views. Here we built each of the two queries. Then, we defined a 'pre' exit and replaced the query in our view with a new one.

Hiding Views Output Until User Input

Kris Vanderwater — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:19:47 +0000

If you've ever used the drupal views module, chances are at some point you've needed to suppress any output until AFTER the user has made a selection from one of your exposed filters. Views actually DOES make this possible, but it's not exactly self-evident. I'm going to run you through a quick "howto" on this as I'm sure many people have needed it at some point.

What Install Profiles Mean to Me

Kris Vanderwater — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:24:23 +0000

Currently there's a pretty in depth discussion surrounding hosting install profiles on drupal.org and what the legal/other implications of such a thing are. I feel this is an important issue to highlight to the community at large, and since I feel rather strongly about it, I'm using this forum to point it out, and also to focus a bit on my own feelings concerning this. For those of

Website Upgrade to D6 and Panels

Kris Vanderwater — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:28:11 +0000

It's about freaking time! As a professional web development shop, sometimes your website can suffer from the "cobbler's kids" effect, namely you're so busy working on other people's websites, that you haven't taken any time for your own. I've been working to remedy that for a little while now, but I'm always up for trying something shiney and new, so...

"500" Status: Internal Server Error in apachesolr_cron

Kurt Vanderwater — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:23:09 +0000

We have installed a 'solr' server for the use of our Drupal sites. It has been an interesting experience so far. Many thanks to all who have blazed the trail ahead of us.

I started getting the error

"500" Status: Internal Server Error in apachesolr_cron

Syncronizing your Mac Address Book with Communigate

Kurt Vanderwater — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:25:10 +0000

So, I got to wondering if I could 'sync' my address book out of my Communigate system with my MacBook Pro. A little digging and I found that the Address Book application has an import feature. It is able to handle csv, ldif, and vcard.

Very First Drupal Meetup in Oklahoma

Ju young Vanderwater — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:44:00 +0000

Oklahoma's very first Drupal Meeetup is happening tonight! We have a relatively small Drupal community here, but we are getting together tonight to meet each other, and discuss how we can further the Drupal community in Oklahoma. We are guessing between 5-10 people will attend at Panera Bread for an informal gathering.

An Exercise in pushing the Envelope - Playing with DRUSH

Kurt Vanderwater — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:06:32 +0000

So, I have been inspired from a recent video to go play with AEgir. I thought I would try it on my laptop, so off to install DAMP.

I must say, I was very impressed with the DAMP install. Simple, straightforward, quick. Oh yea, and it 'Just Works'! Very impressive. I played with the Drupal install for a few minutes and it all seems in order.

Blogo Rocks

Kurt Vanderwater — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:20:44 +0000

I got a call from a client yesterday that requested some help with Blogo on their Drupal site. I had never heard of Blogo, so, I went out and found the product here.

Contextual Administration

Kris Vanderwater — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:13:23 +0000

So I've been thinking a lot lately about Drupal's current administrative work flow. This biggest problem with Drupal isn't that it's administration sucks, it's that it's administration isn't very cohesive. Mark Boulton and Leisa Reichelt have been working on this very problem for Drupal 7, however they've asked the community to submit information about how we've altered our own administrative interfaces. Now when the request went out initially I really hadn't done any "pimping" of my own admin, but since that time I've been contemplating it a lot.